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MADISON - The University of Wisconsin-Madison took down and apologized for a student-produced homecoming video this week that touted diversity but featured few, if any, people of color.

UW's student homecoming committee posted on Sunday the minute-and-a-half video promoting the university's upcoming homecoming festivities, then deleted it Monday after immediate criticism from alumni and students online. Separate apologies from UW, the Wisconsin Alumni Association and the student homecoming committee followed.

"We know that, both historically and today, students of color and other under-represented groups do not feel as welcome on our campus as majority students. As a community, we must commit to and invest in ways to change this," UW's statement reads.

UW senior Payton Wade posted a copy of the video after it was deleted. The video, called "Home is where Wi are," opens by describing the sheer number of UW students and alumni and the breadth of backgrounds they come from and continues by describing what home is by featuring images of campus and white students enjoying a range of activities.

The student homecoming committee invited groups and students from across the 30,000-student campus to participate in the video's creation. The committee apologized for omitting scenes created by students from underrepresented populations.

"We regret omitting those images and we recognized that, by doing so, we unintentionally caused hurt to members of our campus community," the committee's statement on Facebook reads. "We are sorry that our video failed to show the full breadth of the university experience and made members of our community feel excluded."

Wade, who is a member Alpha Kappa Alpha's Epsilon Delta Chapter, said on Facebook Monday she and her sisters of the historically black sorority were asked to share what they thought home was in the video and discovered their contributions weren't included.

"Not only did we tell them what we thought home was but we also took hours out of our day to film as well and were told we would be in the video and notified when it was completed. As you can see we were not featured in the video as we were told, but not only were we not featured no Black students were featured but instead they choose to show videos of people’s butts as they jumped into the lake," she wrote.

Wade said it's a daily struggle at UW where other students think black students are unfit for the university.

"It is hard to have pride for a school where you know you are not wanted and where they obviously do not consider this our home as well. I am disappointed in this university once again, but I am not surprised," she wrote.